BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 July 1922, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION

U.S.A. SHIPPING. WASHINGTON, July 4

No renewal has yet been made of . the Oceanic Steam Ship. Company's mail carrying contract' to Australia which lapsed last Saturday. It is understood the company h(is declared that it would suspend its sailings immediately, unlesg the U.S.A. Government paid double the amount now stipulated. Tile . company asks for approximately 360,000 dollars yearly. The U.S.A. Post Office Department, declines to meet the increase, since it felt it will probably succeed in getting some foreign line to carry the mails lor 100,000 dollars per annum, but the Post Office has asked the company to continue handling the mails for a period of several months longer, at the existing rates, allowing an opporUnity to place the question before eringi‘ofis,..with a request for up appropriation. The Post Office Department is without funds to meet the increase. The U.S.A. Shipping Board and the Navy Department both favour granting the increase. No word has yet been received from th<? company concerning this proposal.

BOTTOM LEY’S APPEAL. LONDON, July 3. •Horatio Bottomlev has appealed against his conviction on the grounds of misdirection of the jury and fib at. as the jury was not properly constituted, it was a mis-trial,

BOTTOMLKV’S APPEAL FAILS. .'Received this day at 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, July 4. Bottomlcy’s appeal was dismissed. IMMIGRATION. (Received this day at 11.30 a.m.) UONDON, July 4. The N.Z. Migration Department anti, cipntes the year’s migrants will closely approximate las tyear’s numbers which totalold ten thousand. The total to the end of June was 4.820. July and August bookings aggregate 1,250, including domestics. A majority of the others, are ex-servicemen but all have been nominated in New Zealand and guaranteed employment and housing.

SOVIET STATEMENT. HAGUE. July 3. Tile Soviet delegation, in the course of a statement, acknowledge Hussia’s pre-war debts. They declare they will pay them, hut they must have credits. If we do not get credits wo will not pay a penny. The fact that Russia is a rich country constitutes the chief guarantee. Russia is not prepared to restore private property to the former owners, hut will grant concessions on private property. We do not. admit liability for war debts.

itrssr.\N corps. LONDON, July 4

The ••Telegraph’s” Copenlmpen correspondent states a Riga message reports two-thirds of the crops in a number of places throughout Russia have been deft roved. Bolshevik leaders admit the 'economic situation is desperate, and in the near future it will he impossible to raise sufficient money to pay the Red Army. Nevertheless it is rumoured the Bolsheviks intend to commence warlike operations in the coming autumn.

BOMB!NO AEPOPT.AXKS. 'Received this day at 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, July I. Two bombing aeroplanes with Free State colours, have departed for Dublin, and others will follow. LONDON, July 4. Tin Stocks are 22,558 tons: afloat 2,635 tons.